Do gig workers really value flexibility — or would they prefer guaranteed work? buff.ly/2R5iNZL Piece in Apolitical by Centre for Economic Performance Stephen Machin

Das wahre Ausmaß der Einkommensungleichheit zwischen Frauen und Männern wird erst im Lebensverlauf deutlich. Neue Studie der Bertelsmann Stiftung gibt detaillierte Einblicke. #GenderLifetimeEarningsGap

Die Bühne beim #Esc ist ja der Ober-Hammer, die Songs haben dagegen noch Luft nach oben...

Grimme Preis für Peter Urban! #esc

Everybody who's expressed a view about Piketty needs to read this. voxeu.org/article/pikett… Bloomberg View

Immigration Economics by George Borjas, hot off the press! wp.me/p3cqoR-GQ

@falkoloeffler Ist doch super, dass die #Gamescom in Köln bleibt, dann gibt's da wenigstens *eine* interessante Messe...

Doubt is uncomfortable, but certainty is ridiculous. Voltaire

LOL! Graph teenage pregnancy (↬ @pietgautier)

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Way to go, Mr Renzi! Reuters: #Italy approves key parts of Renzi's new labour rules uk.reuters.com/article/2015/0… #labormarket #reformmonitor

#CEPSLab 2015 starting now! More or Less Europe? youtu.be/oQ8TxDoB_OI

RT Wirtschaftliche Freiheit: Answer To Krugman On Market Failure: Government Failure Is Worse onforb.es/1w7tSbC via @forbes

.Dani Rodrik: Trade agreements do not create jobs; they simply reallocate them across industries bit.ly/1MLk0O3 #TPP #TTIP

Norbert Berthold (WiF): Der "natürliche" Zins kann allenfalls temporär negativ sein, langfristig ist er positiv. wirtschaftlichefreiheit.de/wordpress/?p=1…

The dangers of worrying about robots. My Independent Voices column: independent.co.uk/voices/john-mc…

Technology is *not* causing jobless recoveries buff.ly/2j52fmr Centre for Economic Performance Michaels

In which David Smith shoots down the idea of a Universal Basic Income in one elegant sentence thetimes.co.uk/article/basic-… h/t Richard Fletcher

And some say "income does not matter for migration"... (h/t @CepoDario) x.com/adam_tooze/sta…